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For the First Time, EPA Limits 6 Pervasive “Forever Chemicals” in Drinking Water

This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Some 70 years after they entered widespread chemical...

10.04.2024 2

Truthout

Joseph Winters

Amazon Is Capable of Reducing Plastic Waste in the US. So Why Isn’t It?

Lea Suzuki / The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images via Grist This story was originally published by  Grist and is reproduced here as part...

08.04.2024 3

Mother Jones

Joseph Winters

Plastic chemicals are inescapable — and they’re messing with our hormones

If you were to create a recipe for plastics, you’d need a very big cookbook. In addition to fossil fuel-based building blocks like ethylene and...

02.04.2024 2

Salon

Joseph Winters

Amazon says its plastic packaging can be recycled. An investigation finds it usually isn’t

Feeling guilty about all those blue-and-white plastic Amazon bags piling up around the house? Fear not — they can be recycled! At least, that’s...

21.03.2024 10

Salon

Joseph Winters

Chemicals used in plastic food packaging linked to 10% of preterm births in 2018

A class of chemicals commonly used in plastic food containers and cosmetic products may have caused about 10 percent of the United States’ preterm...

09.02.2024 5

Salon

Joseph Winters

Bottled water has up to 100 times more plastic particles than previously thought

At this point, it’s common knowledge that bottled water contains microplastics — fragments of the insidious material that can be as small as a...

11.01.2024 3

Salon

Joseph Winters

In First-of-Its-Kind Lawsuit, New York Targets PepsiCo’s Plastic Pollution

This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Plastic trash produced by the company PepsiCo has...

20.11.2023 2

Truthout

Joseph Winters

Plastic’s life-cycle costs overwhelmingly fall on poor countries

As plastic production has skyrocketed over the past several decades, wealthy countries have benefited enormously — from increasingly lightweight,...

14.11.2023 5

Salon

Joseph Winters

A new report calls chemical recycling a "dangerous deception" — and a former plastic lobbyist agrees

As petrochemical companies continue to inundate the world with cheap plastic products and packaging — much of which is designed to be used once and...

03.11.2023 2

Salon

Joseph Winters

Democrats unveil "most comprehensive plan ever" to address plastics problem

As plastic litter builds up in the environment, polluting landscapes and poisoning ecosystems, U.S. lawmakers have unveiled their “most...

02.11.2023 5

Salon

Joseph Winters

Companies are claiming to be "plastic neutral." Is it greenwashing?

For years, companies have been trying to offset their greenhouse gas emissions with carbon credits. Now, they want to do the same thing for their...

13.09.2023 2

Salon

Joseph Winters

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